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Raspberry Pi alternatives for headless self hosted applications (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by SirPsychoMantis@kbin.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Since rpis have been almost impossible to find, I've been looking around for alternatives for some local self hosted services like home assistant. A lot of boards seem to talk about GPU, GPIO pins, etc. But I really just want a single board, fanless (low power), decent CPU and RAM, ethernet.

Any recommendations?

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[-] arkcom@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

hp t530 or dell wyse 3040 or 5070 thin clients

[-] PopYaCork@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I gave up on using raspberry pi for running servers.

I ended up buying a $60 lenovo on ebay https://www.servethehome.com/lenovo-thinkcentre-m710q-tiny-guide-and-ce-review/2/ and then loaded it up with 32GB of ram. Now I run a proxmox hypervisor and around 20+ containers/VMs. Best decision I ever made. I just spin up servers willy nilly

If you don't need GPIO then run a hypervisor. Cheaper than SBCs and more useful.

[-] orangeboats@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I use a pi for servers because of the assumption that it uses very little power to run (compared to say, an old unused laptop), is that not the case?

[-] PopYaCork@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Sure, but I just told you I'm running over 20 servers. Try running 20 raspberry pi's 😀

My resources are being shared for around 20W of power.

[-] Notorious@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It’s not that difficult to get a Pi 4. I wrote a python script that scraped rpilocator’s rss feed every 5 minutes and would notify my phone when one was available in the US. It went off basically every day around 8:30am PST when Adafruit would drop 100+ Pi4s. I’ve picked up two in the past week (one for my Voron printer and another for a RetroPi cabinet). They did sell out fairly fast.. in about 10 minutes or so.

[-] homelabber@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

The thing is that right now it's not worth it to buy a raspberry pi if you want to selfhost. It is 4 years old at this point but it cost 50% more than when it was released.

[-] saucyloggins@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry I have to laugh at this. If you have to write a script for it even if the script is easy there’s no way I can consider it “not hard”. Not hard is just being able buy it like anything else.

I get what you’re saying though.

[-] Notorious@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I didn’t realize it would be so easy when I wrote the script. Knowing what I know now I’d just check adafruit every couple minutes starting a bit before 8:30am PST.

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